| Newark Police Department | |
| Abbreviation | NPD |
| Patch of the Newark Police Department. | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Employees | 1,100 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | City of Newark in the state of New Jersey, USA |
| Size | 26 square miles (67 km2) |
| Population | 281,402 |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Newark, New Jersey |
| Police Director responsible | Samuel DeMaio (acting) |
| Website | |
| Newark Police site | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Newark Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency serving Newark, New Jersey.
The Newark Police Department is the largest municipal law enforcement agency in New Jersey. The department is headed by the police director Samuel DeMaio. The post of Chief of Police was abolished in 2008, when the job of Chief of Police was to handle day-to-day operations and the Director was to handle policy. However, the position of police chief was reinstated by the City Council in July, 2011 and Sheilah Coley was appointed. [1]